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Lennart Heim

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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

You're totally right.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

If GPT-5 poses a national security risk, we can control it for, what, a year or two?

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

And then every guy in a garage with five Mac minis potentially could reproduce it.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

And that's just a thing we need to deal with eventually.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

Well, that's indeed the question, which really will be a political choice for us, right?

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

Or if one needs to intervene.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

I think the best way to start with is just let's look at the status quo.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

Most compute is largely concentrated.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

Where is it concentrated?

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

The large majority sits in industry.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

This didn't always used to be the case, right?

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

Academia was really strong in traditional high-performance computing.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

This lead was eradicated over the last decade, basically.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

Then secondly, where is this compute concentrated?

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

Within industry, within our hyperscalers.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, they own the large majority of it.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

If you look at NVIDIA's shareholder output, they need to tell if it's mostly for big customers.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

That's what you see.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

That's simply the case.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
China’s catching up to US AI… Here’s why it won’t matter

These are all American companies.